bubble company

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English

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Etymology

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See bubble (“to cheat or swindle”).

Noun

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bubble company (plural bubble companies)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A sham business that swindles people.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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